The Conquest of Peru
The Conquest of Peru
Francisco Pizarro was a Spaniard of low birth, and was so ignorant that never in all his life did he learn to read and write. His parents…
The Conquest of Peru: Pizarro
Of course Pizarro wanted to conquer this land, just as Cortez had conquered Mexico. With a small party of men and some horses, he started…
The Conquest of Peru: Atahualpa
After a few months he found enough men and borrowed enough money to start afresh. He landed again on the Peruvian coast, and remained a…
The Conquest of Peru: Indians
He was now with about two hundred men in the heart of Peru, a thickly settled country of thousands of Indians, who could destroy him at any…
The Conquest of Peru: Christian
With him were five thousand soldiers, carrying clubs, slings, and bags of stones. The cortège halted in the great square, and Pizarro came…